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The long-term costs are becoming clearer after the collapse of a construction elevator tower at the Conde Nast construction site in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday.
But that was before the May 31 collapse of a construction crane on the Upper East Side, which killed two workers.
Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has sanctioned the powerful Saudi Binladin Group over the collapse of a construction crane at Mecca's Grand Mosque, which killed more than 100 people days before the hajj pilgrimage.
1 27 p.m. | A city official identified a construction worker who was killed in the collapse of a construction crane on the Upper East Side this morning as Donald Leo.
Home to 8.4 million people — almost a fifth of Spain's population — Andalusia has a jobless rate of 31 percent, due in large part to the abrupt collapse of a construction industry that had thrived along its coast, fueled by bountiful property loans from banks that evaporated after the onset of the world financial crisis.
In Miami, where record foreclosures and the collapse of a construction-dependent economy has decimated jobs, even the most speculative of investors are wary of buying new property.
Since Saturday's collapse of a towering construction crane on the East Side of Manhattan, attention has understandably focused on the central and spectacular details, on the lives lost, the 22-story crane that toppled, the building that was demolished.
Mr. Teitelbaum's position is assured for now; his lawyer announced last week that, according to federal prosecutors and the Brooklyn district attorney's office, he is "presently neither a target nor a subject" in the criminal investigation into the collapse of a Brooklyn building that killed a construction worker in November.
THE collapse of a 22-story construction crane in March 2008 on the East Side of Manhattan killed seven people, crushed a building and rattled the city.
